If things aren’t going your way on issues such as high gas and food prices, inflation and the hordes flowing across the Southern border, the only strategy left is to try and change the subject.
The House Jan. 6 congressional committee is attempting to divert the attention of what concerns most Americans to what some have called the “near destruction of our democracy.”
It begins with a prime-time performance choreographed by former ABC News president James Goldston, who is assisting the committee to plan the hearings and frame how information is presented. This is more evidence, if any is needed, that the media and liberal politicians are joined at the ideological hip. It recalls Bill Clinton’s image makers, Harry and Linda Bloodworth Thomason. Linda Thomason produced the ironically named TV show “Designing Women” and “The Man from Hope” documentary. She once said, “I believe in honest propaganda.”
Viewers of the proceedings, which are scheduled to begin on Thursday, should keep in mind that the committee is the work of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. She refused to allow House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to name Trump-loyal Republicans to the committee citing ” respect for the integrity of the investigation,” instead appointing Republicans Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., both of whom are critical of the former president. These appointees, along with some Democratic members, have already issued public statements about the riot, which is like a jury in a criminal trial announcing its verdict before the proceeding. Unlike a criminal trial, however, there is likely to be little, if any, cross-examination of the witnesses and probably no confrontational questions as we are used to hearing when Democrats question witnesses they don’t like.
Democrats won’t ask tough questions; neither will Cheney or Kinzinger. Cheney faces an uphill battle for re-election and Kinzinger is retiring to focus, he says, on Trump’s influence on the GOP.